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The Girls by Lori Lansens
Book Comment: The Girls by Lori Lansens
I finished this astounding book a week ago and wanted to comment as to how the characters and their story have lingered. The Girls is about Rose and Ruby; twenty-nine year old craniopagus twins. Fused at the skulls with their heads facing slightly different directions, they have separate bodies. The novel chronicles their attempt to forge ordinary lives despite extraordinary circumstances.
Lori Lansens excels at personifying their different personalities and their individual and collective reaction to a range of issues including: the reality of their birth mother, the death of their "adoptive" parents, the reaction of others they meet and the pregnancy of one sister. It is impossible for me to fathom the degree of research and the painstaking process the author must have conducted to render such realism in her book. I felt as if I'd spent time with Rose and Ruby and gained personal insight into their feelings, aspirations, frustrations and disappointments.
An evocative novel, it is truly a good read.
Marianne Perry
www.marianneperry.ca
I finished this astounding book a week ago and wanted to comment as to how the characters and their story have lingered. The Girls is about Rose and Ruby; twenty-nine year old craniopagus twins. Fused at the skulls with their heads facing slightly different directions, they have separate bodies. The novel chronicles their attempt to forge ordinary lives despite extraordinary circumstances.
Lori Lansens excels at personifying their different personalities and their individual and collective reaction to a range of issues including: the reality of their birth mother, the death of their "adoptive" parents, the reaction of others they meet and the pregnancy of one sister. It is impossible for me to fathom the degree of research and the painstaking process the author must have conducted to render such realism in her book. I felt as if I'd spent time with Rose and Ruby and gained personal insight into their feelings, aspirations, frustrations and disappointments.
An evocative novel, it is truly a good read.
Marianne Perry
www.marianneperry.ca
